Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference

Dr. Elvis Imafidon is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria; and Writing Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the editor of Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics, Lexington Books 2013 (co-editor, John A.I Bewaji), The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan 2015, and the author of The Rationality of African Traditional Thought: An Introduction, CreateSpace 2013. He is the author of many articles the most recent of which is “Dealing with the Other between the Moral and the Ethical: Albinism on the African Continent” in Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (March 2017). He is currently completing a book manuscript at the Johannesburg Institute of Advance Studies titled, White Skin, Black Race: The Philosophical Discourse of Albinism in Africa.

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART 1: Conceptualising Difference in African Philosophical Thought.- Chapter 1. Exploring African Philosophy of Difference (Elvis Imafidon).- Chapter 2. Does the African Value of Communion Occlude Difference? (Thaddeus Metz).- Chapter 3. Against Tolerance: The African Attitude Toward the Other as Recognition and Acceptance (Polycarp Ikuenobe). - PART 2: Questions of Race and Western Othering of Africa.- Chapter 4. The Burden of Being a Black Philosopher in a White World: How to Respond to Anti- Black Racism (Joseph Osei).- Chapter 5. Desuperiorization of Thought: Rethinking the Violent Othering of African Philosophy by Western Philosophy (Bj rn Freter).- Chapter 6. Hegel and African Alterity (Rafael Winkler).- Chapter 7. Critical Comments on Mmudimbe's Archaeological Reading of Africa's Difference (Asma Agzenay).- Chapter 8. Toward a Postcolonial Social Ontology: Notes on the Thoughts of Achille Mbembe (Josias Tembo and Schalk Gerber).- PART3: Epistemological, Ethical, Linguistic and Aestethic Issues.- Chapter 9. Enriching the Knowledge of the Other through an Epistemology of Intercourse (Isaac E. Ukpokolo).- Chapter 10. African Arts and Difference: Aesthetic Signs and Symbols and the Separation of the Self from the Other (Matthew A. Izibili).- Chapter 11. Why must my Worth be Earned? Intrinsic versus Earned Value in African Conception of Personhood (Elvis Imafidon).- Chapter 12. Justice and the Othered Minority: Lessons from African Communalism (Jimoh Anselm). - Chapter 13. To Be is not to Be Alone: A Critique of Exclusivism from an African Context (Victor C.A. Nweke and L. Uchenna Ugbonnaya).- Chapter 14. Suffering and the Encounter with the Other in African Spaces (Austin E. Iyare).- Chapter 15. Language and Difference in African Traditions (Jacob Aleonote Aigbodioh and Kenneth U. Abudu).- PART 4: Disability, Gender and Non-Human Othering.- Chapter 16. The Animal Other in African Ethics (Filip Maj).- Chapter 17. Personhood and Moral Status: Implication for the Uniqueness of Women (Mpho Tshivhase).- Chapter 18. The Othering of Disabled Persons in Africa: Ontological and Ethical Issues (Elvis Imafidon).- Chapter 19. The Othering of Persons with Severe Cognitive Disability in Alexis Kagame Conceptualisation of Personhood (Nompumelelo Zimhle Manzini).- PART 5: Conceptualising Othering in Specific African Spaces.- Chapter 20. Othering, Re-othering and Dis-othering: Interrogating the Rich-Poor Dichotomy in Africa's Urban Centres (Jonathan O. Chimakonam).- Chapter 21. 'Mother, Can't you see I'm Burning?': A Psychoanalysis of the Violent, Emotional Othering in Today's South Africa (Benda Hofmeyr).- Chapter 22. Linguistic Cultural Capital Class, Xenophobia and Xenophilia in South Africa's Diverse Cultural Time Zones (Melissa Tandiwe Myambo).- Chapter 23. The Other in South Africa: Enemy or Ally (Lindsay Kelland).- Chapter 24. Moral Good, the Self and the M/Other: A Conversation with a Zulu Man (Rob Baum).-Chapter 25. Creating the Other through the Zimbabwean Fast Track Land Distribution: The Paradox of Decolonisation and Common Good (Erasmus Masitera).- Conclusion.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.